Re: Batch processing & HTML2PS

In article <php.general-95751@news.php.net>, php-general@gremlins.com.hk (Jason Wong) wrote: > On Friday 03 May 2002 02:05, Mrdini wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently working on a warehouse system, and I'd like to print some > > labels pretty accurately. > > > > At the moment, I'm using Mozilla to print, but this just won't do, > > especially not when we're expecting to print something like 4,000 labels > > next week :D > > > > $client is the MySQL record where the client information is stored. > > $copies is the number of copies. > > > > So, what I was thinking was to go :- > > > > User selects number of copies to print & the client number. > > Give HTML2ps the PHP URL with all the info stored in the URL (form POST > > IIRC). > > I think using the PDF functions would be a much better solution. You have > full control over what gets printed where. Search on sourceforge for wrapper > classes which make the PDF functions easier to use. Well, I didn't really look into this way of doing PDFs as I want to dump straight to lpr (it's a postscript laser printer). Also, I don't feel up to learning how to create PDFs -_-. I had a look a while back, and it sounds VERY complicated. -- Yoav Felberbaum E-Mail: y.m.felberbaum@wlv.ac.uk Website (Not worth looking ^_^) : http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~c9807379/